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Map & profile of the location of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road from Cumberland to Wheeling showing also the various routes surveyed from the 1836 to the final establishment in 1850 of the line upon which the road is being constructed; Benj. H. Latrobe, Chief Engineer; drawn by Albert Fink, Baltimore 1850.
Summary
Topographical map of part of the middle Atlantic region showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, roads, turnpikes, railroads in operation, final location of lines, surveyed lines, and rejected lines.
Scale 1:126,720.
LC Railroad maps, 336
Description derived from published bibliography.
Includes profiles.
On the verso in ms: U.S. Engineers. O. Linneman, C. E. 11 July 1857.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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Date
01/01/1850
Contributors
Fink, Albert, 1827-1897.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain
